The latest fantastic, clever, ingenious inventions by Alessio Boschi, jewelry that seems born on the waves of the ocean.
How to define Alessio Boschi? A genius? An heir of the Italian Renaissance? An eclectic artist? Maybe all of these things together. Alessio Boschi is a designer who has mastered the oriental art of gentle processing to complicated sets, brings the humanism of the Italian artistic history, has the sensitivity to the choice and composition of its unique pieces. Alessio Boschi is now a star in the firmament of the jewelry and will be even more. As demonstrated by some of his latest creations inspired by the sea, or rather the Ocean (Boschi lives between Thailand and Italy).
The Coral Reef brooch is also a pendant with an invisible fastening system: can be worn as a center piece in a strand of South Sea pearls. The jewel is a tribute to the coral reefs of tropical seas and seems a spray of water crashing into the shore. But, watch it well: there are also coral, sea fans and an octopus which is clinging around an Australian opal, reminiscent of the deep blue sea. What other designers could conceive and then build something like this? Always dedicated to deep sea is the Orange Anemone ring, with its tentacles encrusted diamonds that frame a beautiful Ethiopian opal cabochon, surrounded by orange sapphires and garnets of Mali. This inhabitant of the seas seems attached to a submarine rock full of micro-algae, made with champagne diamonds, orange and yellow sapphires. Inside the ring, the inner work reveals a micro reef, hand carved in white gold and details of different sea creatures.
It is no less fascinating is the Ocean Foam necklace, inspired by the waves crashing against the shore. A blue and green Paraiba tourmaline remembers the nuances of tropical waters, while the white jadeite, and diamonds represent the foam that develops after the impact of waves on the reef. The movement of the waves, decorated with precious stones pendants to suggest the water drops, framing a beautiful imperial jade green. As explained by Alessio Boschi, a game between the most exquisite and traditional Chinese gem and a less conventional style in a creative challenge that never ends: East meets West. But only Boschi manages to get to this. Giulia Netrese
